Back in 2016, we caught wind of an interesting research project looking to make use of Amsterdam's famously abundant waterways by deploying autonomous vessels to transport people and goods. These ...

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is ready to deploy the autonomous passenger boat it's been developing over the past six years. The vehicle, called the Roboat, has ...

Self-driving boats have a future in city canals. A five-year program to test the functions these autonomous boats in Amsterdam’s canals kicked off with an announcement on Monday, according to The ...

AMSTERDAM – Visitors to Amsterdam may soon spot a self-driving watercraft the size of a small car cruising silently through its ancient canals, ferrying passengers or transporting goods or trash. It ...

Amsterdam is set to play host to the testing of a new fleet of self-driving electric boats dubbed: Roboats. Designed and created by the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and the ...

Transportation is about to get a technology-driven reboot. The details are still taking shape, but future transport systems will certainly be connected, data-driven and highly automated. Read now The ...

MIT engineers spent five years developing self-driving boats. The new Roboat II is large enough to transport people. It can also navigate its way through canals autonomously using the same technology ...

The water taxi from MIT's CSAIL and Dutch partner schools, including the Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and Delft University of Technology (DUT), helped in this venture. The "Roboat" was ...

Autonomous cars are generating a lot of headlines at the moment, but they aren't the only vehicles being freed from the shackles of human control. In what is billed as the world's first major research ...

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